The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-02

Chase of Lyndon, Crosby Miller of Pomfret,
II. b. Kent of Dorset, j. A. Shedd and l.. S.
Drew of Burlington, G. II. Hubbard of
Springfield, George Davis of East Montpe-
lier, II. g. Cleveland of Coventry, George
Hammond of Middlebury, G. II. Campbell
of Westminster West G. T. Bell of East
Hardwick, j. N. Baxter of Rutland, &. S.
| Moulton and II. II. Mcintyre of West
Randolph and G. T. Childs Of ST. Adams;
finance committee, Crosby Miller, j. A.
Shedd and G. A. Merrill Brattleboro was
strongly talked of as the place for the next
state fair. The Champain Valley Assoca-
| ton elected for directors j. Gregory Smith,
Henry Chase, Henry g. Root, Crosby Miller,
George A. Merrill, II. II. Mcintyre, l.. 5.
Drew, w. S. Webb, G. NJ. Spaulding, b. j.
Derby, l.. II. Tacott A. G.. Pierce, j. A.
Shedd, William Wells and II. LEG. Cannon.
The treasurer of the joint exhibition stated
that he had in his hands a balance of about
81 600, with outstanding claims of $500.
In General.
| SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA has snow.
THE public debt reduction in October was
about S15000,000.
ANOTHER dynamite conspiracy has been
unearthed in London.
THE Moscow Gazette demands that Glib
raltar be made neutral
JAY GOULD and members of his family
sailed for Europe Saturday.
LORD LYTroN succeeds Lord Lyons as
British ambassador at Paris.
DIR. McGLYNN denies the report that he is
about to return to the church.
CHICAGO anarchists threaten to use force
to release the condemned men.
A PRoFEssoRsHIP of horticulture has been
| founded at Cornell University.
GOULD has nearly completed negotiations
with the Postal Telegraph Company.
Two of the steamship " Brtannia's" pas
sengers at New York have died of cholera.
| STANLEY has advanced about $50 miles
since last heard from, Aug. %. Health good.
FOURTEEN passengers were injured near
Tallahassee, Fla, by the ditching of a train.
THE president has issued a proclamation
appointing November oath as Thanksgiving
day.
The Moscow Gazette last week contained
belligerent article directed toward Ger
many.
The Chicago Times, Wilbur f. Storey s
great paper, has been purchased by syn
dictate.
THE old mill of the Exeter On. h Manu-
featuring Company is burned. Loss 100000;
insured.
A MA1L-CARRIER named James e. Ham
iton was captured and eaten by sharks on
the Florida coast.
sub-treasury, has gone to Canada. The
amount is $4,000.
IT is considered certain that Rev. Mr..
Berry of Wolverhampton will be Mr..
Beecher's successor.
LESTER HAYES, the nineteen-y ear-old
cashier of bank at Lajunta, Col, has dis
appeared with $1,000.
THE Figaro reports the union of Russia,
Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden and
Denmark against Germany.
THERE have been about 225 to 80 cases of
yellow fever and thirty-four deaths at
Tampa, Florida, up to date.
REPORTS from Tampa give eight new
cases and three deaths, including Father
Peterman the Catholic priest
GOVERNOR SAWYER has signed the bill
authorizing the lease of the Manchester &
Lawrence to the Boston & Maine.
In his annual report the superintendent
of Indian schools asks for native teachers
and better system of textbooks
BUFFALO BILL" has made S35O,0O0 out
of the American exhibition in London of
which he was so prominent feature.
A HURRICANE on the Baltic has driven
many ships ashore between Rugen and
Memel and damaged coast Notifications.
A BIG potato crop is reported in Clinton and
Essex counties, New York In the town
of Peru alone 10000 bushels were raised
A WATER famine prevailing through the
two western tiers of Ohio counties and
adjoining territory in Indiana is growing
serious.
JOHN SNYDER, the man who walks con-
stantly because he cannot helpit, is believed
to be very near death at his home in Mill
Grove, Ind.
THE Georgia legislature has adjourned
after a session of li7 days, without reaching
on an ha GI11
stitute for it.
THE sentence of O'Bren, editor of United
Ireldnd. to three months Imprisonment has
been confirmed and he is again in custody.
Rioting is feared.
DISEASE is prevalent in many cities along
the Ohio valley, and is attributed to the use
of the ewage-saturated river water for
drinking purposes.
The cornerstone of the Lee monument
was laid last week in Richmond, Va The
military display was the finest seen in the
city for several years.
THE peppermint yield of three counties
in Michigan and Wayne county, New York,
which furnish almost all the world product,
aggregates $4,000 pounds.
SECRETARY BAYARD Is to marry again
shortly, the bride being Miss Sophie Dallas
Markoe, who has been employed at the state
department since 1879 or 1880.
The stand pipes of the Franklin, Mass,
and Seneca Falls, N. Y, water-works burst
last week. Loss S15, 900 or $50, 900 at Frank
lin and $3.50 at Seneca Falls.
JAMES A. BAILEY has purchased the inter-
est of Messrs. Hutchinson, Cole and Cooper
in the greatest show on earth and the
| firm will now be Barnum & Bailey.
A TERRIBLE gale ragged in the south of
England on Saturday night. Many build
! ings were unroofed and there were nu-
merous shipping casualties in the channel.
DAKOTA votes on Monday, November 7th
| upon the question of division of the terri
tory. The territory now has population
of $685. and an assessed valuation of $l57, :
! 0S4 ,365.
THE Northwestern Manufacturing and
| Car Company's works at Saltwater, MINI,
were sold last week to the Minnesota
Thresher Company Senator Sabin) for
! Sl,l0500O.
THE Irving Hall county convention, New
! York, endorsed the whole republican ticket
and condemned Tammany Hall and the
county democrats for Indifference to munich
! pal reform
THE steam barge " Polynesia" bound
| from Buffalo to South Chicago, with | ,1SC
tons of coal on board, was wrecked off She
! boygan, Wis. Loss on vessel, 100000; on
coal, Sll 900,
A MEETING of cergymen and laymen OF
the Protestant Episcopal Church was held
| in New York last week, at which plan OF
association was adopted for advancing the
interests of labor,
A STEAMSHIP from Hong Kong reports
phar traY NIr